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Buen Vivir as an Alternative to Sustainable Development: Lessons from Ecuador book cover

1st Edition

Buen Vivir as an Alternative to Sustainable Development Lessons from Ecuador

By Natasha Chassagne Copyright 2021
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge
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Until recently, the concept of Buen Vivir has only been loosely articulated by practising communities and in progressive policy in countries like Ecuador. What it actually means has been unclear, and in the case of policy, contradictory. As such there has been a lack of understanding about exactly what Buen Vivir entails, its core principles and how to put it into practice. This book, based on... Read more

Introduction  Part 1  1. The Brief History of Development and Sustainable Development  2. Towards an Alternative to Development: The Growing Legitimacy of Post-Development  3. Sustaining the ‘Good Life’: Buen Vivir as an Alternative to Sustainable Development  Part 2  4. Understandings of Buen Vivir in Ecuador’s Cotacachi Canton  5. Living Well and Buen Vivir: Practice vs. Policy?  6. Challenging the Good Life  7. Rethinking Sustainability: Making the Global Align with the Local  8. Implementing Buen Vivir: The Practical Pathway to Transformation  9. New Horizons for Socio-Eco Wellbeing: Concluding Remarks

Biography

Natasha Chassagne is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology’s Centre for Social Impact, Australia. Natasha’s doctoral research looked at the viability of Buen Vivir as an alternative to Sustainable Development. Natasha is a political scientist by training in international law and international relations, specialising in human rights and environmental law. She has worked as a Sustainability Consultant, and writes and researches on sustainability, wellbeing, and climate change issues.

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